Cleistocactus dependens
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Cleistocactus clavispinus is a species of plant in the genus Cleistocactus from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet dependens means 'hanging down'.
description
Cleistocactus dependens grows as a shrub with numerous, spreading or pendulous, cloudy green, segmented shoots that are slightly tapered towards the tip and have a diameter of 3 to 4 centimeters. There are 10 to 12 rounded ribs that are clearly grooved across. The areoles on it are 1.1 to 1.5 centimeters apart. Of the 3 to 4 protruding central spines , one is directed downwards. They are gray with a black tip and 1 to 1.5 inches long. The 8 to 13 fine, needle-like, spread out radial spines are reddish gray and 2 to 3 millimeters long.
The straight, radial symmetry flowers are 4 to 4.5 inches long and have a diameter of up to 7 millimeters. The flower tube is strawberry-red and covered with scales with some white hairs. The greenish to whitish green bracts are hardly spread out. The spherical, reddish magenta-colored fruits reach a diameter of up to 1.4 centimeters.
Distribution and systematics
Cleistocactus dependens is distributed in the Bolivian department of Santa Cruz in the province of Florida on moist, rocky slopes at altitudes of 1400 meters. It was first described in 1952 by Martín Cárdenas .
Cleistocactus dependens is possibly a synonym for Cleistocactus candelilla .
proof
literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 118 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 24, Los Angeles 1952, pp. 143-144.